Poetry Books by Edith Wharton
Publisher: Peter Owen Limited
Published Date: 2007
Categories: Fiction
With eight outstanding ghost stories, this collection highlights Edith Wharton's ability to switch genres seemingly without effort. The same literary genius evident in her best known works such as The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, and The House of Mirth is here dedicated to giving the reader a damned good scare. Stories such as "Kerfol" (adjudged by aficionados to be Wharton's best ghost story) and "Pomegranate Seed" are perfect illustrations of consummately crafted horror fiction. Wharton's vivid sense of the supernatural betrays her deeper anxieties about the claustrophobia of domestic life and the pain of a failing relationship.
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Published Date: 2020-03-24
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When Professor Linyard came back from his holiday in the Maine woods the air of rejuvenation he brought with him was due less to the influences of the climate than to the companionship he had enjoyed on his travels. To Mrs. Linyard's observant eye he had appeared to set out alone; but an invisible traveller had in fact accompanied him, and if his heart beat high it was simply at the pitch of his adventure: for the Professor had eloped with an idea.
Publisher: Penguin Uk
Published Date: 1996
Categories: Fiction
Three novels are contained in this title from the TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS series, each looking ironically at the affairs of the old and new wealthy American classes moving to Europe. Previous works by Edith Wharton include THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, ETHAN FROME and SUMMER.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published Date: 2016-08-22
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"The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton " by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton was pulitzer prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer (1862-1937).
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Published Date: 2014-10-15
Categories: Ghost stories
Edwin Culwin wakes up to find a ghastly pair of eyes staring at him, the eyes of a man 'who has done a lot of harm in his life'. They pursue him wherever he goes; he doesn't know why; he doesn't know who they belong to - but he can feel his soul being pierced. Part of Galley Beggar's new Ghosts series.
Publisher: Peter Owen Limited
Published Date: 1996
Categories: Fiction
Edith Wharton described herself as someone with an 'intense Celtic sense of the supernatural'. As a 'ghost-feeler', she wrote a number of chilling tales that objectify this sense of unease, even terror. Many of these stories appear here for the first time since their original magazine publication. With themes of vampirism, isolation and hallucination, they reflect the author's internalized fears and her unhappy experience of marriage, and point to a world far removed from the comfort and urbane elegance of her famous novels.
Publisher: Scribner
Published Date: 1990
Categories: Fiction
Uses the correspondence between the two American writers to trace the development of their friendship
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published Date: 1993
Categories: Fiction
Contains the first and last novels written by Wharton, both with the theme of women trapped by social convention and fateful forces into destructive marriages
Publisher: Caven Press
Published Date: 2013-01
Categories: Fiction
The World Over was Wharton's last collection of stories, and typifies her elegant style and a feminist perspective that was ahead of its time. The collection includes one of her best-loved stories Roman Fever, which features two middle-aged American women who are visiting Rome with their daughters, and whose past conceals rivalry and jealousy. Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, she became one of its most astute critics. In such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence she employed both humour and profound empathy to describe the lives of New York's upper class and the vanishing of their world in the early years of the 20th century.
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Published Date: 1923
Categories: Americans
Young American living in France sheds his indifference and participates in the European War.
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Published Date: 1998
Categories: Fiction
A compendium of four of the author's classic novels about turn-of-the-century New York high society includes The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Old New York, and The Custom of the Country.
Publisher: MSU Press
Published Date: 2000
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
"Consisting of thirty-two letters, one postcard, and a note from Wharton's secretary to Bromfield's wife, their correspondence gives an insight into the private worlds of these two distinguished writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Published Date: 2016-05-01
Categories: Fiction
Ethan Frome is tired of looking after his sick wife, Zeena, who complains incessantly. His wife's cousin Mattie, on the other hand, is cheerful and healthy, and she wears a becoming cherry-colored scarf to the local dances. She has been living with the Fromes to help around the house, and she and Ethan have fallen in love. They are careful never to show their feelings for each other, but Zeena grows suspicious and decides to send Mattie away. Desperate not to be separated, Mattie convinces Ethan to run their sled down a snowy hill and into a tree so that their last moments might be spent together. But will it be the end they hoped for? This tragic romance, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton, was first published in 1911.
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published Date: 2015-02-26
Categories: Fiction
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.' Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Wharton's works available in Penguin Classics are Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published Date: 1925
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Discusses approaches to writing a short story or novel, and stresses the importance of character and situation
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published Date: 2009-11-24
Categories: Fiction
One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, "...till I was twenty-seven or -eight, I could not sleep in the room with a book containing a ghost story." Once her fear was overcome, however, she took to writing tales of the supernatural for publication in the magazines of the day. These eleven finely wrought pieces showcase her mastery of the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other supernatural phenomena. Called "flawlessly eerie" by Ms. magazine, this collection includes "Pomegranate Seed," "The Eyes," "All Souls'," "The Looking Glass," and "The Triumph of Night."
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published Date: 2010-01-08
Categories: Fiction
A modern edition of Edith Wharton's classic story of the adventures of neglected children.
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published Date: 2009-04-01
Categories: Travel
American novelist and designer Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco after the end of World War I. Morocco is her account of her time there as the guest of General Hubert Lyautey. Her account praises Lyautey and his wife and also the French administration of the country.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published Date: 1989
Categories: Fiction
Gathers selections from Wharton's memoirs, short stories, poetry, and major novels
